Wednesday, April 20, 2011

UP: Wisconsin Protests, State Budgets, Federal Budgets...


This Unknown Protest Series piece focused on the union protests and demonstrations in Wisconsin and also touched on state and federal budgets, all the week of facing the possibility for a government shutdown.

These photos document the evenings experiment. I decided to work with more sculptural material for the evening and step back from the space.

The small figures are made out of clay and came from a workshop I led in the past inspired by Antony Gormley's field series. I gave participants a large hunk of clay and had them break of bits and hold it at arms length and simply squeeze the clay slightly with both hands, leaving a negative impression on the small body of clay, and then make two small indentations for eyes. Some of you may recognize them.

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